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Creative Experiments - Shoutpost HelpMoney Manners
2007-06-12
After my last post on Kids and Money, I thought of this and this deserved to be a separate post.
The game of Money Manners at the table.
You give your children 10 pennies each at the start of dinner. You sit down to eat, in peace.
Anyone breaking a table etiquette rule, like talking with their mouth full, loses a penny to the penny pot (small jar or decorative dish).
In-fractures are sitting improperly, playing with food, whining, talking too loud, arguing, elbows on the table, etc. You can custom design your bad manners rule list.
You can also give a penny for trying new foods too.
They watch one another so there may be some tattling and they lose a penny for that.
On a calendar, post how many pennies each has after the meal and tally the penny points at the end of the week. Use different marker colors for each child. Good manners equals 70+ penny points a week.
The kids don't like to lose their 10 pennies and they like to earn a few extra ones.
Pennies are not kept, they are just used as tokens. Ten pennies per child keep on getting recycled per meal.
Sometimes, if they accumulate so many penny points, they get a small treat OR
I have a coffee can with 31 slips of small paper, most are blank and three have a star on them. After dinner, a piece of paper is drawn to see if they get a treat. Blank ones mean no treat, one with a star, they get a treat. (Treats are not just food, playground destinations, Wendy's Frostie, trip to the bookstore, anything that appeals to them.)
To prevent arguing over which one picks the paper, one does it on even days, the other on odd days. Some months they switch.
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